Marsh

"In the great marshes and the wide lagoons, I am your persecuting demon."

"Tired with dull grief, grown old before my day, I sit in solitude and only hear Long silent laughters, murmurings of dismay, The lost intensities of hope and fear; In those old marshes yet the rifles lie."

"Enki knit together the marshlands, making young and old reeds grow there; he made birds and fish teem in the pools and lagoons"

"Where there was a marsh then in Unug, it was full of water. Where there was any dry land, Euphrates poplars grew there. Where there were reed thickets, old reeds and young reeds grew there."

"Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-with-holding and free Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea!"